Nah, the app running functionality just wasn’t ready in time, so like the true marketing bro he was, he only wanted to project success and sold the thing he had working (web sites on a phone) as the best invention ever thought of ever. A year and a half later when the app making tools were finally ready, suddenly those were the greatest innovation ever thought of ever. All of a sudden in a span of less than 2 years from their introduction web apps were stupid and clunky and boomer.

While that is technically true, do any of the “everything” apps have meaningful functionality without an account/ID?

No, you really, truly can’t “rugged individualism” your way out of a societal problem. Remember that wedding you went to a few months ago? Someone uploaded this photos and now your social graph has been recorded. When your friend’s kid had a birthday party a few weeks ago? You were uploaded and graphed again. When you were out at that restaurant and you were in the background of someone’s date selfie? Graphed again.

The only solution to this problem is real data protection law, like the GDPR in the EU.

The boomers are not on their way out. We have the exact same politicians in power that we had 30 fucking years ago.

This sounds about as useful as the California law that tells ICE they aren’t allowed to cover their face, or the California law that tells anyone selling anything ever that they have to tell you it will give you cancer. Performative laws are what we’re best at here in California.

This doesn’t satisfy the “crumple zone that is not my face” requirement.

I literally don’t believe you. Wi-Fi? Zigbee? Z-Wave? Not a single reset or re-pair because you changed some password or bridge or the power went out and one of them needed a little encouragement?

Yes but I have done zero maintenance on my light switches in over 30 years. No downtime either or updates.

It does. Installing them is intentionally obtuse and is buried in the “share” menu.

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Just mix together equal parts corn syrup and gasoline.

China could very well be the redistribution point to elsewhere in the world. When you’re the global hub of shipping it’s much easier for a few bonus goods to make their way around the system.

I think Drobo suffered from the problem of being slightly too technical for the technology dumb, and slightly too dumbed down for anybody who knows what Network Attached Storage is. Once you have the knowledge to know that you want network attached storage with redundant hardware, a generic RAID solution is within your ability level and there’s no point paying a giant premium for the Drobo branded version.

Would you say the same if Muslims were doing human sacrifices? (It must be noted that they do not actually do that, this question is for demonstration purposes only.)

Well the good news is that this will inevitably spawn an open-source tool that perfectly bypasses these “age verification” systems. They targeted gamers.

That’s more of a tragedy of the commons situation. Spammers take advantage of anonymous email accounts and ruin them.

I typed your symptoms into the computer and it says you may have “internet connectivity problems”?

It reminds me of the Macally iKey

It also has to do with design/repairability. Samsung seems to go out of its way to design their products to be cost-prohibitive to repair and difficult/impossible to disassemble without damaging them. Lots of glue and brittle one-time-use clips. Lots of breakable switches and dials mounted on a custom mainboard.

LG is getting greedy though. They removed the Permanent Press button so that you have to connect it to Wi-Fi and use the app to set that cycle. Same with “just rinse and spin”. The app is so unbearably slow that I was motivated to figure out how to set up a Home Assistant server and make my own custom dashboard to use in order to avoid interacting with that damn app.

The actual wash/dry performance is excellent, though.